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Turning Vice into Virtue: Institutional Work and Professional Misconduct

by Brooke Harrington | Oct 30, 2018 | Financial Fraud

2019, Human Relations, 72 (9): 1464-1496. Why do professionals engage in or aid misconduct, rather than rejecting it as a threat to their legitimacy and labor market survival? This paper contributes to the scholarly agenda by drawing on an ethnographic study of...

Habitus and the Labor of Representation Among Elite Professionals

by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2017 | Elites & Inequality

2017, Journal of Professions and Organization, 4: 282-301. This paper reports findings from an 8-year study of the embodiment, acquisition, and consequences of habitus in the wealth management profession. The study contributes in three ways to the ongoing effort to...

Studying Elite Professionals in Transnational Settings

by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2017 | Methodology

2017, Pp. 39-49 in Professional Networks in Transnational Governance, Leonard Seabrooke and Lasse Folke Henriksen (Eds.), Cambridge University Press. Reflections on the special challenges of studying professionals when conducting ethnographies of elites.

Going Global: Professionals & the Microfoundations of Institutional Change

by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2015 | Elites & Inequality

2015, Journal of Professions and Organization, 2 (2): 103-121. This study links theories of relationality and institutional change to deepen understanding of professionals’ role in globalization. In previous institutional research, it has been conventional to treat...

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